The initial impetus for the current popularity of statistical methods in computational linguistics was provided in large part by the papers on part-of-speech tagging by Church [20], DeRose [25], and… (More)

Semi-supervised learning is by no means an unfamiliar concept to natural language processing researchers. Labeled data has been used to improve unsupervised parameter estimation procedures such as… (More)

It is natural to expect phrase structure to be important in predicting prosodic phrasing. Yet there appears to be a concensus that syntactic phrases do not correspond well to prosodic phrasing, and… (More)

The question arises from time to time what the relation is between dependency grammars (DG’s) and phrase-structure grammars. A classic paper by Gaifman [1] would appear to have laid the issue to… (More)